Chapter 2

Walking into the old rickedy house of #12 Grimmauld Place, Brooke was immediatly filled with the warm smell of cinnamon, the familiar creak of the floorboards, and the comforting darkness of the house itself. Though Ron and Hermione told her she was crazy to love this house so much, she couldn't help it. Sirius was here, and Remus, and sometimes when it was filled with the Order Members, Hermione, and the Weasley's the laugher would echo off the walls for hours long after everyone left, and you could forget how much darkness the house once held.

"It isn't much, but it's home for now." Sirius said, giving her shoulder a squeeze, before walking past her and into the kitchen.

"We had an Order meeting earlier before we came to get you, Molly made food and left you a plate on the counter." Remus said, pointing in the direction of the stove.

Smiling sweetly she yawned wildly.

Grinning Sirius pointed his wand at the food and sent it away, "Maybe we will just take you to your room and all of us call it a night."

"Yeah, I am a little tired, I didn't get much sleep." Brooke said, stiffiling another yawn as she followed the two up the stairs, after saying goodnight to Tonks and Moody.

Sirius ruffled her hair.

"Okay sweetheart, you know where your room is, and if you need anything just let us know." Remus explained.

Brooke smiled at the two, "Goodnight." she said giving the two a quick hug before walking down the hall towards the room she, Hermione, and Ginny always shared. "Hey guys?" she said, watching as Remus poked his head out of his door, and Sirius stopped walking towards his own door

"Yeah?" they both said in unison.

"Thanks for coming to get me." was all she said before giving them one last smile and closing her door.

Walking into the familiar bedroom of the house, Brooke practically ran to her bed. Throwing her shoes to the floor in a heap, she pulled the covers up over her head and lay there a few minutes, letting the nights events sink in.

She was finally back with Remus and Sirius, and even had a whole month before she even had to return to school so she could actually enjoy it. She was away from the Dursley's, and hopefully away from all of her haunting nightmares.

With those thoughts in mind, Brooke smiled and closed her eyes.

"Brooke...Brooke...Brooke!" a voice kept saying, shaking her gently.

"Ugh 5 more minutes." she muttered, frowning as the annoying voice continued hassaling her.

"Come on, I thought we were going to go to play today!" Sirius whinny voice complained.

Brooke cracked an eyes open, narrowing it as Sirius puppy dog face invaded her vision.

"Come on Remus won't let us do anything untill you wake up!" he complained.

"So you decided to wake me?" she asked sitting up with a glare.

Sirius grinned wildly, "Yes."

Running an irritated hand through her hair she threw the covers off her form, "Get out then, I'll be down in a minute."

"Yay!" Sirius yelled, running out the room.

Smiling at the sound of his footsteps pounding down the stairs, she quickly dressed and got ready for a day with her two favorite men.

"Relax Sirius she will be down soon!"

Brooke smiled stalling on the stairs as Remus' voice floated up to meet her.

"But I want to go now Remus!" Sirius whinned.

"Oh you poor baby!" Brooke mimicked his whinning voice as she entered the kitchen.

"Goodmorning Brooke" Remus said, "Would you like some coffee or tea?"

"Tea please." she muttered, before turning to Sirius, "So what are the plans for the day."

"Muggle London!" he explined, grinning wildly, "Now that I am a free man I want to see it all."

"Thank Remus." Brooke whispered as she took a sip of her tea.

"And what is even better is you can show us around everywhere-"

Brooke inhaled sharly, taking in the hot water to her lungs and coughing it up loudly.

"Whoa there." Remus smiled, patting her lightly on the back.

Sirius laughed, "I see you got your fathers table manners."

Blushing darkly, Brooke coughed once more before catching her breath.

"Come on hurry!" Sirius whinned.

"Sirius," Remus said, narrowing his eyes, "Brooke hasn't even eatten yet."

Brooke smiled jumping up from the bar stool, "No, I'm actually not that hungry, not a big breakfast person."

"Good let's go!"

"Sirius!" Remus growled, "Brooke you always ate in the Great Hall at breakfast."

Tossing a piece of hair out of her eyes she walked towards Sirius near the door, "I'm not sure just not that hungry."

Giving her a fatherly look he nodded, "Just let us know if you end up getting hungry."

"Now that we covered that, lets go!"

Brooke grinned at his clear excitment, "Yeah Remus can't we pretty please go!"

Sirius grinned slinging an arm over her shoulder, "Please!"

Grinning Remus walked towards the two, "Okay let's go, grab onto the sickle." he instructed, pulling out the coin.

"Portkey?" Brooke practically moaned as she eyed it with disdain.

"Yeah wh-Oh." Remus muttered relization drawn to his face.

Sirius rubbed her back soathingly, "Can we Floo?" he asked quickly.

Remus shook his head apoligetically.

Shaking her own head she plastered on a fake smile, "It's okay really, it will just be my first one, but it had to happen sooner or later."

"Brooke-"

"Really it's fine." she insisted grabbing ahold of the coin, shotly followed by Sirius and a more skeptical Remus.

And as she took a deep breath she wondered if maybe she should have told them of her nightmare from the night before.

Cedric's haunting eyes kept her up all night the night before, and once she woke from her first nightmare she was too scared to go to sleep again. The only thing that was a relief was that they were silent, and she would never wake up Remus or Sirius.

"Brooke, sweetheart you can open your eyes now." Remus voice filled her ears.

"Prongslet?" Sirius voice came from her other side, squeezing her hand lightly.

She must not have had her eyes closed for too long, though for her it felt like hours, because when she opened them the two smiled reassuringly at her.

"Down Town Muggle London, it's close to your home Brooke, I thought it would be perfect for you to show us around."

Brooke looked around, her heart hammering slightly, she had only once been down here, Aunt Petunia had to get Dudley some candy and toys for his birthday before picking him up from the Movies, so Brooke got to come along. Besides that one time, and the trips to Kings Cross, Brooke had never been outside of the Pritvate Drive Community.

Remus was watching her closley as the emotions crossed her face, while Sirius was looking around in excitment.

'Well I can wig this, they won't know the diffrence.' she thought before smiling at the two, "Come on then."

Showing the two around the downtown area turned out to be easier than she thought. All the same shops were around that were there when she was younger, even the same hot dog stands linned the streets. She showed the two the toy store that Aunt Petunia always bought all of Dudley's toys at, also the computer store that Brooke had heard Dudley always say had the best games. Then she showed them the candy store that Dudley would always spend all his allowance at. She showed them the local movie theater, along with the park and the craft store, even the doll store. Of course the whole time she had to lie and say it was she who was always taken to the store. She even made up a huge story about the doll store and how her favorite doll had come from there. They laughed along with her, and seemed to really be enjoying themselves.

"I'm starving now." Sirius finally said as they walked down Main Street.

"That is supprising since you ate all that candy" Brooke laughed.

"It is already 2, where is a good place?" Remus asked.

Brooke frowned, trying to think quickly, "Over there." she said pointing towards a hole in the wall restaurant.

Upon entering the restaurant the three took a seat near the back of the place.

"What kind of food do they have here?" Sirius asked, trying to grab the menu out of her hands.

"Hot dogs, hamburgars, things like that." she muttered before handing over the menu.

She could finally breath a sigh of relief, shopping had gone well, and luckily enough she had picked a normal place to eat at.

"What do you want Brooke?" Remus asked politely as the waitress walked to the table.

"A hotdog please."

"I'll take a cheese burgar" Sirius ordered.

"A Chili dog for me please."

"So how did you like today kid?" Sirius asked, grinning, "You know this muggle ordering thing isn't too bad if you think about it, although you do have to wait a bit don't you..."

Brooke cast him a funny look as she rolled her eyes, "Today was actually quite fun."

Remus smiled, "Happy you enjoyed the day-"

"Yes, because tommorrow we have to clean up the house, we have an Order meeting." Sirius explained.

Brooke smiled, she knew what that ment, Ron would be there, and maybe even Hermione.

As their food arrived at the table, Sirius barley let the poor woman put his plate down before he started to scarf down his food.

Remus and Brooke shared a look before starting in on their own food.

"So kiddo, how was your summer so far?" Sirius asked.

Brooke managed to swallow her food calmly before answering, "Mostly just did alot of homework, and spent time in my Aunt's garden getting sun."

"Well that sounds like a good start to the summer, and productive." Remus said, taking a sip of his drink.

Sirius snorted, "Actually it sounds wicked boring." which earned him a glare from Remus.

Brooke just smiled.

"Thank Merlin we came and got you."

"You can say that again." she muttered.

Sirius just laughed, pulling out money to pay for the meal, while Remus look held hers a bit longer, an odd qustioning look.

"Let's get going." Remus finally said, shaking his head.

Brooke followed the two through the town to where the appaparation point was, smiling as the two bickered about their best pranks. Her mind was drifting as the sun burned down on her form, she couldn't help but wonder what Voldomort was up too, why was he being so quiet, was he hurt, was he building up an army, or was he just resting while planning his attacks.

"Come on Sweet Pea." Sirius said, his smiling face taking her out of her dark thoughts, "You okay?"

Shaking her head to get rid of all those thoughts she smiled, "Yeah, I'm fine."

-The Next Morning-

"Since Sirius decided to sleep in so late and change all the clocks, we oviously only have a few short hours before the meeting." Remus explained with a pointed look at Sirius, "That being said, Brooke you can take the 3rd floor and Sirius the 2nd, I'll take the 1st."

"Are you sure you didn't give yourself the 1st because Sirius and I don't clean like you do?" Brooke asked ducking as Sirius threw a chip at her.

Remus grinned, "Maybe...Now get too it, we only have 2 hours to clean!"

Brooke laughed, "Thank Merlin we don't have to clean together, we'd never get anything done with Sirius making more of a mess, don't worry Remy, I'll reclean the 2nd floor as well."

Sirius glared, "You'll regret saying that Potter!"

Brooke squealed as she took off running up the stairs with Sirius hot on her trail.

"Remember to clean!" Remus yelled after the two, smiling as he heard their loud laughter. Shaking his head, he turned towards the kitchen to get started.

Brooke wandered room to room cleaning, opening up drawers and closets being nosey and found nothing of importance. The last room to clean was the tapestry room of the Noble House of Black, and she found herself fascinated with the names and pictures sprawled across the wall.

"Done yet?" Sirius asked quietly from the door way, peering at her curiously.

Blushing sighly, she looked down, "Sorry, I'm sure you don't like this room much."

Sirus gave her an easy going grin, "Eh it could be worse I suppose, I actually don't mind, reminds me why I left."

"You went to my grandparents right?"

"Yes, I was always welcome at the Potter's, your father was thrilled." Sirius said, smiling at the memory, "At that point I would have gone anywhere but here."

Nodding in understanding, Brooke smiled, a far away look in her eye, "If I could get away from the Dursley's without Dumbledore on my back I would have."

"That's why your here kiddo, though this place can't be much fun."

"I'd rather be here on the worst of days then at the Dursely's"

Sirius cast her a side ways glace, "Wh-"

"Come on you two, everyone is here!" Remus' voice floated up the stairs.

Running towards the door, Brooke smiled, "Perfect, I'm starving!"

-End Chapter 2-